Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 191
“Victor,” I say, my hands sliding down the bars of my cell as I sink to the floor. He’s just across the short aisle from me, but with these metal bars between us…
He might as well be a world away. I am desperate to go to him, touch him, help him – but I can’t.
He doesn’t say a word in response, but I can see him breathing, his breath fast and shallow. I press on.
m so sorry –“
he says, interrupting me. His word is light – so light – but I hear the intensity in it, even if it’s barely a
also see him flinch, hear the hiss of breath that escapes from his mouth.
ld touch him, stop him. “Please, Victor – don’t move – it’s not worth it.”
it.”
my cheeks then. God damnit, why are we separate in this moment? All I want to do is be with him, be
y chin. “You don’t have to say anything – I know, I understand –“
not just talking about that morning, after the fire.”
ears. I don’t want him to hear me, to think that he’s somehow making me feel worse.
ween us. Whatever it is. I never would have admitted it to myself, because I was too proud – but from that moment, everything with Amelia and I was just…doomed.”
eeing. I think I knew it too. I never would have ad
y side, forever.”
th it, with the pain of his emotion, of his speech.
My life collapsed
sorry. I destroyed everything –“
o push himself in a half circle so that he can look at me in my eyes with his own.
ace of his own agony.
arely stand it, to see him like this. The man I love, laid so low
e guilt. I’ll never be
o, Evelyn,” Victor whispers. “Don’t. Every moment h
being, that the life we’re making is right.
too high?
uld change is how I treated you that morning, after the phone call in the closet.”
right – I had betrayed him so completely, had done things that were absolutely unforgivable –
on and my gaze back to his. “You can’t – you can’t blame yourself. I backed you into a corner wher
ring. He’s complimenting for what I did to him – my complete b
credit, unfairly, for their affinity for spying and subterfuge, but you’ve really outdone me this time – you are the original sneaky squirrel –“
s from me at that – racking through my agonized
od damnit, how can I be laughing at a time like this
en skin.
elyn, if there’s even anything to forgive. Please, please forgive me. How I treated you that morning – I was so angry, Evie, but I was so wrong – please – I’ll do anything –“
d, which sticks against the tears that are thick in my throat. “I forgive you, darling – I forgive you everything.” I shake my head then, my eyes fastened to his. “We have both made mistakes – we can move on – we can learn how to trust each other.”
his lips still turned up in his smile and I can’t help but return it myself.
e cement floor across from me, bleeding out his life’s blood, smiling at me like a teenager i
ver my face and under my nose, trying to clean myself up. I know I’m n
g forward, baring my heart to him. “I was so stupid to think that I could leave and live without you – I’d have been home in
fore then. I love you, Evelyn. My Luna. I’m never going to be stupid enough to let you go ever again.”
elishing the sound of his words. But knowing, in the core of my being, that as
unded body could make that choice for us even a
ing the bars of my cell with determination. “I’m going to ge
r opens his mouth to reply, but before he can, we hear the door at the